Open Studio NightFriday, 11.13.15, 6:00 - 8:00 PM, Lazarus CenterIf you would like to participate and open up your studio, please fill out theOpen Studio Night Sign Up Sheet. Grad Studies will provide signs to notify visitors that your studio is open. There will be pizza and beer served from 8:00 - 9:00 PM for participating graduate students. Participating students come to Grad Studies Friday, 11.13.15, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM, and get a STUDIO OPEN sign for your studio to let everyone know you are participating in Open Studio Night!

While we will spend time discussing these issues, there is always an open forum at the end of the meetings for anyone to come voice questions/comments/concerns, or you can email us if you would like something put on the agenda!

GradEx Weekly MeetingFriday, 10.30.15, 2:30 - 3:30 PM, L109, Lazarus CenterJoin the GradEx Committee for the weekly meeting in the new location, L109. Be a part of the next chapter of student-led exhibitions! Meeting time this week changed to 2:30!

GradEx Open Call for ArtExtended Deadline: Monday, 11.9.15, 12:00 PMTHERE IS STILL TIME TO SUBMIT YOUR WORK! All currently enrolled graduate and post bacc students are welcome!

Maryland STE(A)M Festival at MICAMICA URBANSTUDIO: Urban/Nature along the Jones FallsFriday, 11.6.15, 1:00 - 3:00 PM1515 Mount Royal Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21217MICA is happy to host STEM in 2015 in our URBANSTUDIO. This is an interdisciplinary research and design course in our Architectural Design Department taught by faculty in collaboration with Johns Hopkins climate scientists and ecologists and Baltimore city environmental and community planners. Working with students from MICA and JHU to document the Jones Falls Mill Corridor, we are using fieldwork mapping, transect drawings and GIS techniques to study the hydrology, ecology, history and culture along Baltimore’s original waterway.Students are recording topographical, historical, social and environmental conditions and will use their observations and analysis to formulate design proposals to address ecological and social connectivity along the waterway. At the STEM event we will share our mid-semester findings through a series of interactive mapping projects. Click here for STE(A)M event flyer!

How Might We? A Design Thinking Workshop with Jeff Waring and Alicia ZeoliWhen: Friday, 11.6.15, 5:00 - 7:00 PMWhere: L160, Lazarus CenterThis Graduate Pop Up workshop is a space for discovering and exploring design thinking, which invites participants to find and resolve problems in creative and collaborative ways. Design thinking combines the subjective inquiry of the humanities, the objective truth-seeking of the sciences, and the creative and open-ended investigation of art and engineering. The workshop will be a place to hypothesize, investigate, build, test, fail, and rebuild, and where resources will be used wisely, creatively, and with playful purpose.

The workshop will be led by Jeff Waring, elementary art and iLab teacher, and Alicia Zeoli, innovation and technology specialist. Both are current faculty members at Westtown School in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

FASQA AwardDeadline: Monday, 11.9.15The FASQA Award was created by MICA's Faculty and Staff Queer Alliance (FASQA) to recognize student achievement and contributions to the LGBTQI community. While all MICA students are eligible to apply for the award, preference will be given to applicants who identify as LGBTQ.

Two prizes will be awarded for the 2015-2016 academic year:

One $500 prize awarded to a student with demonstrated financial need

One $500 prize awarded to a student who demonstrates involvement with and/or commitment to the LGBTQ community and issues, regardless of financial need.

Applications must be submitted to the Office of Diversity & Intercultural Development (Meyerhoff 108) by Monday, November 9th. Click here for the application.

Open House to Meet Rev. Ramelle McCallMonday, 11.9.15, 12:00 - 1:00 PM, Meyerhoff Reflection Room, Meyerhoff HouseThe Office of Diversity and Intercultural Development will host an Open House for you to meet the new campus chaplain, Rev. Ramelle McCall. "Rev" will serve as a non-denominational chaplain on Mondays from 10-3. The Open House will take place on Monday, November 9th from 12:00pm - 1:00pm in the Meyerhoff Reflection Room. Light refreshments will be provided.

MICA Transportation Resource ForumFriday, 11.13.15, 8:30 - 10:30 PMLower Atrium, Brown CenterMICA is always assessing the effectiveness of all transportation services for the MICA community. Currently, we are aware of some improvements that students ​have request​ed,​ and would like to ensure that these services ​ (such as the MICA Circulator, Evening Safety Shuttle, Airport Shuttles, Shopping Shuttle​,​ and Social Shopping Shuttle​)​ all fit ​the needs ​of the community as best ​as possible. Please join us Friday, November 13, 2015 from 8:30 pm-10:30 pm in the lower Atrium of the Brown Center for pizza and an opportunity to provide feedback​ on ​all MICA Transportation Services.Please note that you are not required to stay the entire time ​(though you are more than welcome to do so!). Please stop by the forum, grab a slice of pizza, and fill out a comment card. You may also s​peak directly to Rufus Davis, Manager of Transportation and​ Operations Services. For questions or concerns, please contact transportation@mica.edu.

Honorary Degree Recipient NominationDeadline: Friday, 11.20.15Each year, MICA invites a few individuals to receive Honorary Doctorate degrees at the undergraduate and graduate Commencement ceremonies in May. At each ceremony, one of the recipients also serves as the Keynote speaker. Because the individuals we invite are likely to be successful and have demanding schedules, it's important that we make our selections well in advance to ensure that the candidates are available on Commencement Day.

I invite members of the College community to submit nominations for the 2016 Honorary Doctorate degrees. Nominations (please specific if your nominations are for the undergraduate or graduate ceremonies) should be submitted via this www.mica.edu/HonoraryDegreeNomination by Friday, November 20, 2015. The President and Board of Trustees will then make the final choices.

Mold Making and Casting WorkshopSaturday 11.21.15, 4:00 - 7:00 PM Rinehart Studio, Lazarus Center, Ground FloorLearn how to make rubber molds for multiple castings of ready-made objects or handmade sculptures! In this mold making and casting demonstration you will learn how to make a rubber mold and a mother mold, and how to make hollow and solid casts of your piece. In this demonstration, we will use plaster and burlap, which is the same method that can be applied using concrete or hydrocal with fiberglass. Led by Noa Heyne (Rinehart '17)To sign up, contact Catherine O'Connell, coconnell@mica.edu in Graduate Studies. ​​

WORKSHOPS

Grad Lab Workshop: Intro to Processing When: Thursday, 11.5.15, 7:30 - 10:30 PM (TODAY!)Where: L504, Lazarus CenterInstructor: Patrick HuntEver been interested in learning an object oriented programming language? Created for artists, Processing is great introduction to computer programming. Whether you are creating highly intricate computer illustration or making interactive sound and video works, Processing provides a way to dip into any of these possibilities while learning a simple but expandable programming language, and its free! No experience necessary.

*** It is highly recommended that you attend both the processing and electronics workshops before attending the Physical Interface Workshop

Career Development Drop-In HoursWhen: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2:00 - 4:00 PMWhere: GT200, The GatewayThe quickest and easiest way to meet with a Career Counselor is during Drop-In Hours. Speak with a counselor during these 10-15 minute meetings to find answers to your quick professional development questions. No previously scheduled appointment necessary. Drop-ins run on a first-come-first-served basis.

Student Advisory GroupWhen: Friday, 11.6.15, 12:00 - 1:30 PMWhere: L060, Lazarus CenterAttention 2nd Year Mount Royal, Hoffberger, Rinehart, PEM, and Community Arts students! Please join Graduate Studies for a Student Advisory Group meeting this Friday, November 6. The topic for discussion will be updates and continued planning for MICA Grad Show 3. Please send your RSVP to Catherine coconnell@mica.edu in Grad Studies if you plan to join us Friday. Lunch will be served!

Career Development: Fulbright Information SessionWhen: Friday, 11.6.15, 3:30 - 4:30 PMWhere: Lazarus Auditorium, Lazarus CenterThe Fulbright Program provides grants for individually designed research/art projects, The National Geographic Digitial Stroytelling Fellowship, AND for English Teaching Assistant Programs. Open to all interested students and alumni!

Career Development: Illustria Info SessionWhen: Monday, 11.9.15, 12 - 1 PMWhere: Brown 320, Brown CenterIllustria Designs is a rapidly growing startup design agency that is the market leader for design on demand. We're disrupting the traditional model and bringing businesses the convenience and reliability of in-house design through an intuitive cloud platform and membership model. All students welcome to attend!

Career Development: How to Find an InternshipWhen: Thursday, 11.12.15, 3:15 - 4:15 PMWhere: GT200, The GatewayHow do I find an internship? How do I apply?What are the benefits of completing an internship?If you are just starting your search for an internship, this is the session for you. Our Peer Career Advisors (PCA's) can answer your internship questions, and many more!

Career Development: Tax Tips for Artists and DesignersWhen: Thursday, 11.12.15, 4:00 - 5:30 PMWhere: Leake Hall Auditorium 101Instructor: Vernon GeorgeThere are many costs associated with having your own artist or design practice, so knowing how to prepare your tax documents correctly and how to keep great records can benefit you financially. Did you know you can write off your subscription to Art in America on your taxes as "research?" There are many costs associated with having your own artist or design practice, so knowing how to prepare your tax documents correctly and how to keep great records can benefit you financially. This session is led by Vernon George, who has experience working with practicing artists and small business owners.

Grad Lab Workshop: Basic ElectronicsWhen: Thursday, 11.12.15, 7:30 - 10:30 PMWhere: Grad Lab, L504, Lazarus CenterInstructor: Patrick Hunt​This workshop will provide a short introduction to basic electrical components and how they can be assembled to create complex circuits. This is a great workshop for anyone interested in adding sensors, lights, or sound to their artwork. It is also an important preamble to our Physical Interface workshop. Whether your just curious or really ready to get started this is a great intro to electronics basics.

*** It is highly recommended that you attend both the processing and electronics workshops before attending the Physical Interface Workshop

VISITING ARTIST LECTURE SERIES

D. Watkins is a local author who just released a book "The Beast Side: Living and Dying While Black in America." He will be speaking about his book on Thursday, November 5th 7:00-9:00. We are going to have some local spoken word poets perform as an introduction and closing to his talk and make it a really spirited event. He has been interviewed on NPR, the Melissa Harris Perry Show, and many other venues locally and nationally. ​

MAREK TUSZYNSKI, CREATIVE DIRECTOR & CO-FOUNDER, TACTICAL TECHNOLOGY COLLECTIVEMarek is a restless producer of various creative and social interventions that span across various media: radio, television and internet; as well as those that utilize non-technical formats, such as workshops, book sprints and endless conversations. Activism, innovation and creativity are the major driving forces in his work, as much as the importance of marginalized voices, opinions and world views.

Previously he co-founded The Second Hand Bank, as well as the International Contemporary Art Network, before Tactical Tech and recently Tactical Studios. He is currently focusing on producing interactive and static visualizations representing complex social and political issues; very recently he produced and directed a series of documentary films for Tactical Tech called Exposing the Invisible. In some spare time he produces a radio program titled Love & Chaos on Reboot FM

Authorship and Representation: Race, Ethnicity, and Black American Life in Art7:00 PM, Lazarus Auditorium, Lazarus CenterSponsored by MICA’s Office of Graduate Studies and the President's Task Force on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Globalization

This panel will explore what representation means, especially as it relates to the broad range of African American and diasporic African experience. Contemporary art is becoming increasingly pluralistic; however, artistic production by Black artists that features figurative references or cultural indices of Blackness is still often considered marginal. Although Black artists continue to produce work that repeats this self-determined imagery, there are new and emerging challenges to greater and more productive futures. What is at stake for Black artists who present unsettling truths? What is at stake for Black artists who choose to speak only for themselves as individual artists inspired by personal experience?

Poet, critic, and MICA faculty member Christopher Stackhouse will moderate the panel with artists Arvie Smith (LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting '92) and Zoë Charlton. Zoë Charlton’s drawings depict culturally loaded objects and undressed bodies. She is Associate Professor at American University and has exhibited at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, The Studio Museum of Harlem, and Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Arvie Smith transforms histories of oppression into lyrical paintings. He earned his MFA from MICA’s Hoffberger School of Painting and is Professor Emeritus at Pacific Northwest College of Art. In 2015, he received a Distinguished Service Award from the Oregon Art Education Association. He is represented by Galerie Myrtis in Baltimore. Christopher Stackhouse’s contributions to artist monographs include Kara Walker’s Dust Jackets for The Niggerati and Basquiat—The Unknown Notebooks. His writing has been published in American Poets, Modern Painters, Art in America, BOMB, and The Brooklyn Rail. He is a frequent lecturer and instructor at MICA.

Charles Long’s sculptural works often present themselves as autonomous art objects engaged with psychological, philosophical, political and poetic concepts of the body, mind and nature. Charles Long earned his BFA at the University for the Arts, Philadelphia, while also attending the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, and later earned his MFA at Yale University. His work was included in the 1997 and 2008 Whitney Biennials, and has been featured in over 40 solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries internationally. In 2008 the American Academy of Arts and Letters recognized Long with the Award of Merit. He has been the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Pollock-Krasner Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Arts and The Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant. Charles Long is a Professor of Art at the University of California, Riverside.Sponsored by the Mount Royal School of Art, with additional support from Rinehart School of Sculpture and the Mixed Media Lecture Series

The recent and highly publicized deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown and Freddie Gray have lead to a growing grass-roots movement that speaks out against police brutality and racial profiling. Please join us for a screening and discussion of Kathleen Forster’s film Profiled, which highlights women’s voices and concerns as part of this national dialogue and tells their powerful stories of indictment and brutality to bear witness to the institutional racism that drives such violence.

Profiled is about racial profiling and police brutality. The central characters are Black and Latin mothers whose sons (and in one case a sister) have been killed by New York City police officers. The women share their sorrow, organize vigils in memory of loved ones, seek indictments of officers responsible for the deaths, organize protests when their demands are ignored and transition from grieving family members to community activists. With the deaths in 2014 of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, the issues and concerns voiced by the women become part of a national dialogue and they join the growing grass roots movement against police brutality and racial profiling. Profiled knits their stories into a powerful indictment of murders by police, (as the film notes, the New York Police Department has killed more than 300 people since 1995) and places them within a historical context of the roots of racism in the U.S. Moving interviews with victims’ family members are juxtaposed with sharply etched analyses by Joseph Graves (The Emperor’s New Clothes). Profiled bears witness to the racist violence that remains an everyday reality for Black and Latin people in this country.

"Speculations: Art, Real Estate, and the Image of Los Angeles": Susanna Newbury is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History, Theory & Criticism at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her research and teaching interests include the social history of twentieth and twenty-first century art, histories of photography and architecture, urban studies, and economic geography. Her recent article on Renee Green and architectural memory is forthcoming in the Fall issue of Xtra: Contemporary Art Quarterly.

​Pablo Helguera (Mexico City) often draws improbable relationships between human histories, biographies, anecdotes and historical events. He often focuses on history, pedagogy, sociolinguistics and anthropology in formats such as lectures, museum displays, performances and written fiction. Following his BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and employment with the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago, he received a Ph.D. degree from Kingston University in London, and refined his role as an educator with engagement at MoMA. Helguera has been the recipient of numerous awards for his art and his ideas concerning social practice art, including the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Creative Capital Foundation, a Franklin Furnace Fellowship and a Blade of Grass Award from the Rubin Museum . He is the author of several books including Education for Socially Engaged Art and Art Scenes: The Social Scripts of the Art World.

OPPORTUNITIES/OTHER NEWS

CALL FOR ART! Distinguishable From Magic: SciArt Center of New YorkDeadline: Sunday, 12.6.15​"Distinguishable from Magic" explores our perception of humanity’s relationship to technology.Each artist is encouraged to produce new works that explore their own relationship as well as humanity's relationship to these developing technologies. For more information and to apply visit the website!

Project PLASE: Some Assembly RequiredSome Assembly Required seeks to bring individuals together into this place, once a public school, and now a site in transition, to experience artworks that look to alter and interrupt the environments they reside.Please visit the website:http://someassemblyrequired2015.wordpress.comPress Release

Gather Together: a Survivor Support Networkfeat. Hannah Brancato (MICA Faculty and MFA in Community Arts '11)Hannah Brancato plans to use her Open Society Institute-Baltimore Community Fellowship to organize Gather Together: a Survivor Support Network, will be a community of survivors of sexual violence that will ignite a dialogue within the greater community about how we can better support those affected, as well as decrease the pervasiveness of abuse in our community. The project will utilize public space as a way to encourage a more open dialogue between those who have experienced sexual violence and their surrounding community. By opening up the conversation about sexual violence in our community, Brancato hopes to eradicate the shame and loneliness that surrounds the healing process of survivors, as well as form goals for abuse prevention.See full article here!

JHU / MICA Short Film Needs ActorsMy name is Michael Smigiel and I am a graduate student in the John’s Hopkins University / MICA Filmmaking M.F.A. A team consisting of myself and two other great filmmakers are taking on the production of [a short] film. The movie is titled Tom and is a dramatic creepy short film about a peeping tom. When this film is complete it will be submitted to countless festivals all over the nation and beyond. The music is paid for and I have the license to use it, the script is written by me, and the project will be PG-13 rated. The auditions will be held Friday November 6th from 6pm to 9pm on the 2nd floor of the JHU / MICA Film Centre, at 10 East North Ave. Baltimore Maryland. We specifically are looking to cast the female lead, and are searching for women ages 18-30. Those who decide to try out can either bring their own monologue, improvise with a provided male actor, or read from the pre-written scripts I will provide. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns please email me at smigielmichael@gmail.com.

Accepting proposals for Open Engagement 2016: POWEROpen Engagement (OE) is an annual, three-day artist-led conference dedicated to expanding the dialogue around, and creating a site of care for the field of socially engaged art. Founded in 2007, OE has evolved into an unparalleled hub for practitioners and audiences of socially engaged art to assemble. OE is the only conference on this subject of this scale that operates on an inclusive open call model that supports emerging and established artists and collaborates closely with national institutions to further the networks of support for socially engaged art. ​More information here!

JHU Research RemixThe Digital Media Center is excited to announce a new project for the current academic year called Research Remix. We are inviting researchers, artists, and designers to sign-up to participate in an interdisciplinary experiment. Researchers from throughout Johns Hopkins are invited to sign-up at researchremix.com and share a brief summery of their research for participating artists and designers to view. Participating artists will choose a research project to remix (or interpret) into a new creative project. This is a great way to see your research visualized in unexpected ways and to reach new audiences through associated programming.

Participating researchers will be asked to correspond with any artists that select their research, and are encouraged to collaborate more deeply if both parties are interested. Numerous events in the upcoming months, including a collaboration with Ignite Baltimore, will feature opportunities to meet other participants and share work. Artists, designers, or creative teams are also invited to sign-up at researchremix.com. Finished artworks will be archived on the project website and eligible to be included in a physical exhibition at JHU in Spring '16.

The Kennedy Center Internship ProgramThe advertising and marketing department is tackling a redesign project this spring for all of our show displays and window vitrines. The intern would be directly paired with a supervisor, but would have majority control over this project on a daily basis. Furthermore, the intern will participate in the internship program's professional development and networking events to support their continued growth in the field. The Spring applications are due November 15, and the term runs January 18- May 13. For more information about the program visit the website here!

Open Call: Design the 2016 Arts Entrepreneurship Awards TrophyFractured Atlas is now accepting submissions from artists and designers to fabricate the 3rd Annual Arts Entrepreneurship Awards trophy! Click here for more information

Open Gallery Exhibition Series and Residency ProgramExhibition Series: Time: Entropy and Change. The concept of entropy is often defined as nature’s tendency to move from order to disorder. Other ideas associated with entropy are: a lack of predictability, change in condition or appearance and gradual decline over time into disintegration or dissolution. In nature, this phenomenon is seen in the slow degradation of elements such as stone or wood, or in a myriad of other possibilities. Time is the key to both entropy and change, whether in nature or in human lives.We invite artists to propose an individual or group exhibit that expresses or relates to these intertwined concepts. More information here

Each year, Arlington Arts Center presents SOLOS, a series of semi-annual exhibitions of new ideas, new forms, and new artists that enrich the local dialogue surrounding art and life. Artists from across the mid-Atlantic region submit proposals for solo exhibitions in one of AAC’s seven separate gallery spaces. Proposals are reviewed by invited jurors, and fourteen artists are selected for inclusion in the Fall or Spring SOLOS exhibitions. This year we were thrilled to have two incredibly talented and distinguished jurors — Melissa Ho, Assistant Curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC and Chicago-based artist Jefferson Pinder — to help us select this year’s crop of exciting emerging and mid-career contemporary artists to fill our space. A central component of AAC’s mission is to support contemporary artists from the mid-Atlantic region, and to expand the conversation surrounding contemporary art. Over the course of two exhibitions, the 2015-2016 SOLOSartists will do just that. ​​